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How much better is silence; the coffee-cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee-cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves

We sit around staring at the wall-to-wall
Take field trips to our favorite mall
Waiting for the day when all the kids grow up and leave us here
– Jonathan Coulton, Shop Vac (watch the live performance)

LEFOU: No beast alive stands a chance against you. —And no girl, for that matter.GASTON: It’s true, Lefou. And I’ve got my sights set on that one.LEFOU: The inventor’s daughter?GASTON: She’s the one – the lucky girl I’m going to marry.LEFOU: But she’s –GASTON: The most beautiful girl in town.LEFOU: I know, but –GASTON: That makes her the best. And don’t I deserve the best?
– Beauty and the Beast (1991) (watch the clip)

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves

I think the early days of this administration are going to be described in the history books as days of action. And the American people welcome the decisiveness that President Trump has shown on this issue, putting the safety and secretary of the American people above the niceties of communicating with people in Washington or in some cases around the world. He acted. He put the safety of the American people first. And I think this, that’s the kind of leadership the American people want to see.
― Mike Pence

‘Donald Trump wants to remove us from undue federal scrutiny by removing “white supremacists” from the definition of “extremism,”’ the founder and editor of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer (which takes its name from a Nazi propaganda publication) wrote in a post on the site. ‘Yes, this is real life. Our memes are all real life. Donald Trump is setting us free.’
― Alan Pyke